The Value of Load Following Capacity: Will Increasing Renewable Share in Europe’s Electricity Reduce Nuclear Reactors’ Capacity or Load Factors

A. Bidaud (), S. Mima (), Jacques Després, Daniel Heuer, Patrick Criqui (), Bénédicte Champel and Nouredine Hadjsaid ()
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A. Bidaud: LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - IN2P3 - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019]
S. Mima: GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019]
Daniel Heuer: LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - IN2P3 - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019]
Patrick Criqui: GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019]
Nouredine Hadjsaid: G2ELab - Laboratoire de Génie Electrique de Grenoble - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019]

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Abstract: Nuclear energy cost structure makes it a base load technology. In the cases where varíable renewable production has a higher priority on the grid, renewable lechnologies will reduce load factors of dispatchable technologies. If not able to follow residual load, nuclear reaclors could be supplanted by more flexible technologies. In this paper, we study the disregarded load following capacity of nuclear reactors for the nuclear industry in terms of preserved market share.

Date: 2016-04-17
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Published in International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2016), American Nuclear Society, Apr 2016, San Francisco, United States. pp.503-508

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